Re: communication

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:24:29AM +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote: 
> > I've seen praise for Keith from the KDE and Gnome teams for the work
> > he's done to enhance the desktop, yet these projects bring with them
> > the belief that XFree86 is not listening to them. It strikes me as though
> > Keith is the one injecting these projects with that belief.
> 
> As a single desktop developer, I don't personally feel that XFree86
> doesn't listen - there are tons of features in 4.3 that we wanted to
> see, and they were done well. No complaints on that. However, as you
> say:
>  
> > It's bizarre. In this situation of Keith being THE person representing
> > this specific communication channel - and he's not managed it at all well.
> 
> Which seems to say that Keith was the only one interested in the
> desktop. And indeed, many of the desktop-related features (fontconfig,
> Xft, cursors, randr, etc.) are coming from Keith.
> 
> So speaking for myself only, I am worried about the *future*, not
> necessarily the past. Who will be the new person representing this
> communication channel, if not Keith? Are other XFree86 developers
> interested?

   Are you an XFree86 developer?  I see your name in the CHANGELOG.
Are you interested?  I hope Keith continues to be a communication
channel between these projects, but he shouldn't have to be the
only channel.  The XFree86 project can't add support for things it
doesn't know about.



			Mark.